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A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

never have had Parliaments after then they would have been like Deer put in a toyle and would have proved in the second degree after us slaves of which slavery they were principal authors Open your eyes yee Cavaliers and see what nooze you had prepared for your own necks when it had been too late to get your heads out after the conquest and Parliament ruined Look into France when the Parliament Estates were destroyed they were no better then slaves How many of the Nobility suffered as Montmorancy Count of Soysons Bouillon and others and the people generally so miserable as they can hardly live For Bills of Grace I see no authority for it a Prerogative intended only by the power of kings for people when they chuse one to rule over them would justly be dealt with and not harshly when obedient for then the Soveraigne ought to be loving to them and a father to them But when the king takes his sword to fight with his subjects they ought to defend themselves especially the Parliament which is the highest appeal for any wrong offered by the king Therefore it was that our common Law allowed every one a plea upon a Writ justifying any against the Crown for taking away of real and personal estate Also if Magna Charta forbids any free man to he imprisoned and allows him an Habeas Corpus much more life may be preserved and defended by the sword for upon an Indictment of man slaughter in se defendendo it is a good plea to save his life in his defence although he kill the other If any one defend his estate against the king much more life may be defended by a Parliamentary power which is of a higher nature if every subject then the Parliament which represents the whole body may raise an army if the people be willing to undergo it on purpose to defend their lives All Warrants of peace and good behaviour were made in the kings name so then if the king raise an army to murther his subjects he hath lost to be a defender of them and hath suspended or rather lost his Perogative of Soveraignty for every subject may kill one another when there is no power to restraine them and the king cannot defend when he raiseth a power to kill them The King had two capacities one as a King another as proprietor of Lands Honors and Seigniories when he lost his first capacity the Parliament which is the representative in right of the people might justly assume the supream authority to themselves to defend those the king would murther for the people first granted or suffered kings to have authority over them for their good but when the King abuseth it he ceases to be any longer their King but becomes a cruel Tyrant and then he may be justly tryed in his second capacity as a Subject and lose his life forfeit lands and goods by the Parliament the supreme Judges And therefore it was that Richard the third before Henry the seventh conquered him was held a lawful king and Henry the seventh attaint as a Rebel by Parliament but after the Conquest Henry the seventh his Attainder was reversed and Richard the third affirmed to be a Tyrant This declares positively that Parliaments have onely power to ratifie and annul kings and no other For else by power any one may be a Soveraigne without the Parliaments approbation but never any ascended the Throne that was not confirmed by Parliament not only in way of Ceremony but essentially and really performed by an Act to allow and ratifie the present King or else he could not lawfully govern Besides the King takes an oath at his Coronation to maintaine all the priviledges of the people but when he brings them to oppression and Tyranny he is perjured and loseth the title of a father and protector of his people and is in the capacity of an enemy to the Commonwealth Many examples are in the world that Kings when they became Tyrants have been deposed and killed as in Muscovy among the Turkes Babylonians Persians Greeks and Romanr and he who is an enemy to the Commonwealth deserveth to die by all Laws Humane and Divine Kings have augmented their prerogatives and so by intrusion have tyrannized over the Subject for they have in the interim of Parliaments had prerogatives to pardon Manslaughter and such as are expressed in the Acts of Parliament and by their greatness they incroached their power for Kings could not take away the life of any Subject but by Indictment and Arraignment and that by a Jury of twelve men who must finde the Delinquent guilty or not guilty not in Parliaments but in the interim of them wherefore King Charles his coming with an armed power to take out the five members was a high breach of priviledge and for declaring he would break the neck of Parliaments he deserved to be dethroned this was to destroy the right of his Subjects so that they should have no property in estate real or personal nor life for while the Parliament sate he ought not to question any and afterwards he could not take away the life and estate of any without a Jury but it would be questioned the next Parliament as many Presidents in the Rolls of Parliament sheweth A Parliament is a free place where every one ought to speak their mind freely for the good of their Country Now it was the fashion of King James and King Charles when anyspoke for the good of the people to corrupt them with preferment and make them Royalists who were afore for the Commonwealth preferment drawing them opposite to the Commonwealth as Sir Henry Yelverton Sir John Savill Sergeant Glanvile Sir Robert Heath my Lord of Strafford and Master Noye but Master Noye shewed afore his death a great remorse for it to some of his intimate friends It was greatness so bewitched them and increased the kings power to wit by preferment and honors insomuch as Sir Edward Hoby a factious Gentleman at a Committee in the Parliament chosen to punish some boyes that abused old Master Jordans Gloves certaine boyes being proved to be the authors of that Roguery the Committee debated what School-masters should correct them whether Westminster or Pauls Sir Edward Hoby I say told the Comittee he had found out one would lash on both sides meaning Master Yelverton Sir Henry being newly chosen Sollicitor-General for the king to signe Bils of Grace which was only in Parliament to be done when Lotds and Commons had signed them afore but out of Parliaments the kings had no such right It s true kings might in interim of Parliament upon an invasion raise an Army and impose monys upon many of the Subjects but this was authorized by Parliament and if he did amiss it was questioned the next Parliament This shewes plainly that the Parliament had the power not the Royalty It is true kings had a power to call Parliaments so have the Beadles in the Universities power of

that there were exactions too many to be repeated in so little a volume as this and piety being intombed so many yeers and so many pious men silenced caused Nobility Gentry and all inferiours more licentious who by insensible steps grew Atheistical This was connived at by many debauched in Authority so great a current of prophaness was generally for want of Ordinances which caused the People to perish in Godliness The fault proceeded in both Kings but especially from the first governing by young Counsellors who had not vertue but vanity this caused Gundamore that cunning Machiavil to scoff at the Counsellors of State telling King Iames he was the wisest and happiest Prince of Christendome to make privy Counsellers sage at the age of twenty one which his Master the King of Spaine could not till sixty A jest pocketed up by him who loved commendation and flattery more then truth by which he was blinded and saw not the hidden flout This Prince otherwise very much knowing mued in his English Reign favourites to the fifth Coat these Nobles being addicted more to pleasure and delights then the School of prudence and wisdome looking more at their own Interest then the common good or piety of life gave so vast a liberty to their lives as made an abordment of loosness in many insomuch that strictness of life which our Saviour requires was imputed a disgrace and the vainest counted the wisest the profanest no hypocrite and a Puritan was stiled a Devil so that by this time it was difficult to hear profitable Sermons the Pulpits being stuffed more with eloquence then zeal to move the conscience and the Preachers were fitter for a Stage then a Pulpit Thus begun goodness to dwindle and vice to spread far and neer vitious being counted the gallantest men But God opened Pembrooks heart to see the errours of youth But behold the last was Sir George Villiers in number but first in vice and villany as by the former relation he appeared unmasked in his open colours who mounted the highest steps of honour and profited most in the Academy of Nicholaus the Florentine accompanied with a juncto of Achitophel-advisers who spun the web of all his inhumane devices and had none to intercept the contriving but Felton with a knife to take away their General which hindered further rallying his Diabolical plots This man imbarqued us in an unnecessary war at the Island of Rees where many brave Commanders ended their dayes by his unexperienced discipline in War who though advised by Burrows guarded not a Fort which made the French Masters of that Island after he had taken it and in his retreat from thence placed his Ensignes in the muskets not the pikes Afore this king Charles sought to marry with Mary of the House of Bourboune and sent the Earl of Holland ordinary Ambassador to France who with the assistance of the Extraordinary Buckingham there dispatched that overture by the aid of Queen-Mother with their alluring behaviour which drew on the conclusion more then a team of horses or oxen could a by-word king Iames used to obtaine ends by female creatures To Dover Mary was brought and so to Canterbury where king Charles bedded her without the ordinary religious forme of uniting This Queen some yeers after shewed great modesty although there lay a pad in the straw for the Count of Soysons justified boldly and openly at the Louvre in Paris that he was contracted before to her with divers witnesses and so challenged her for his lawful wife before God Holland of this advertised sent Soysons a challenge to combat him but Soysons was deaf of that eare and never met a reason was the Court-faction for the marriage was too strong for him to maintaine the truth with his sword an occasion demonstrated more his fear of ruine then valour and that his enemies power abated the edge of his courage Whilst this match was a brewing the Duke aslayed to defile Lewis the thirteenth's bed by some accomplices which then was found out by the Parliament in Paris a discovery instigated him to procure his Master to the French War inhibiting the Spanish marriage because Count Olivares had foysted into his bed a pocky Courtesan at Madrid in stead of his Lady often sollicited by Buckingham most of his wisdom consisting in such constuprations So that these bawdy transactions in a prospective-glass may bring nearer to our memories the fashion of Charles his Reigne how sin was hatched from an egg to a Dragon to devoure holiness of life insomuch that the Masks and Playes at Whitehal were used onely for Incentives to lust therefore the Courtiers invited the Citizens wives to those shews on purpose to defile them in such sort There is not a Lobby nor Chamber if it could speak but would verify this King Iames dead King Charles ascended the Throne with a dismal plague of 5000 dying every week God pointing to us as with a Feseu as a Scoolmaster to warn us to repent of our abominable sins if no admonition would reform us he would scourge us with an Iron Rod. Yet in shew King Charles gave good hopes to his People of a vertuous Reigne but finding the sweetness of his invasselling the People king Charles paved his path by the steps of his forerunner who reigned twenty three yeers save one day but Charles instead of pacing it ran violently to destroy his subjects following too hastily his precedents direction which brought him afore his time to the block the desert of Tyrants Certainly those times differed much from these for where it is falsly objected that these days are more heretical I answer By a general sale of heretical books then they sought to vitiate truth with greediness the sole indeavour in the Universities now in these dayes too curiously finding out truth they mistake it unwillingly and run upon some points of error which this wise Parliament labours to suppress by placing pious and learned Divines as speedily as they can men indued with the Spirit of God through their Dominions there being a wide difference 't wixt those do wilfully maintaine against knowledge falshood and the others that mistake the truth But in those times they studyed erronious opinions being incouraged by the Bishops so that the Students were ambitious to rake out of the ashes many heresies of Rome to maintain their Lordships as namely kneeling at the Sacrament they used arguments of the real presence of Christ and so reverence Christ corporally present with the Papists when our Saviour used sitting another gesture From this root sprang the Socinian damnable opinion to make Christs death an imitation for all to follow to bury in oblivion the great High Priesthood of Christ and to advance their Sacerdotal Tyranny and insult over the People by the power of spiritual Courts which exalted them above others when Christ abased himself to be a Saviour in his actions on earth a carriage they ought to have used according to his example by

to the Records of Parliament sometime there was added to and sometime diminished from what was in the Roll of Parliament and somewhat put in that might be advantageous to the kings and put out was for the benefit of the Subject as I have observed by my comparing the printed book with the Record And truly if there were a Committee to examine the Records it should be necessary to see the right of the Subject And in decimo octavo Iacobi king James sent and took what was done that Parliament from Master Wright Clerke of the Parliament So likewise the king by his power and the great Lords of Court made Courtiers Burgesses and sometime knight of the Shire by letters who hindred much the proceedings in Parliament by their vote it being the policy of the Dukes of Cornwall in the Stannaries to have multitude of Burgesses to make themselves potent in Parliament which now the Parliament will prevent by providing that the Representative may be equally chosen from all parts Likewise it was usual for king James and King Charles if any did speak in the behalf of the Commonalty in Parliament against the prerogative to make them Sheriffs or impose other burthensome Offices on them as my self and Sir Guy Palmes were served after that Parliament of 18 Iacobi or to be revenged on them some other way for doing their duty in Parliament as then was invented by projectors as I could recite divers examples in my time The Courtiers also laboured to make good patriots Courtiers as Sir Dudley Digs was made a Courtier and Master of the Rolls who was faithful to the Parliament and dyed before a Parliament came this was to draw their affection from the multitude to the Soveraignty so that by those means Tyranny was increased and the right of the people waved which now will be redressed and reformed by Gods blessing and prudence of the State Now I will draw a short Lantskip by way of Epitome to examine what good king Iames and King Charles have done since Anno Domini 1603. The seven yeers Parliament was a sage and wise Parliament and laboured to do much good for the then-kingdome and as a new broom sweepeth clean at first king Iames granted some good Laws but the Court of Wards they endeavoured to pull down which had ruined infinite families upon offer to give the king two hundred thousand pound in deposito and annually two hundred thousand pound but it was opposed by Robert Earl of Salisbury otherwise a very good Commonwealths-man as too great a thing for the king to part with And truly that Parliament took great pains to reform abuses in Church and State but not much was done for the good of the Subject but great sums granted and a good Government hoped for rather then in fruition For king Iames spent much time in his pleasures and much money in Embassies to make himself great so that there was some good for the Merchants but Tonnage and poundage given by Parliament was for Guarding the Seas which was imployed to the Royal purse onely so that although complained of the Merchants were at a double charge in wafting their goods After king Iames wronged the fisher-men and us much by granting to his brother Henry the fourth king of France for his moneth to fish on our coast who under that colour took away the very earth and spawn of the fish of Rotchet Gurnet Cunger and Hadduck to Deep where they have abundance and we want King Iames granted the Hollanders to fish on our coasts and for a smal petty rate the Island of Lewis in Scotland and other Isles of Ireland to dry their fish by which they have inriched themselves above fourty millions Sterling In that Parliament of seven yeers they laboured to reform abuses in Church and Commonwealth and that the pious Ministers might not be tyed to subscribe to the unlawful Ceremonies of the Bishops which was not granted but in nono Iacobi at Hampton Court were divers pious men as Reynolds Kniwstabs Clerk and other reverend Divines to dispute about ceremonies but that the Divines had not freedome of speech for all went on the Bishops sides a cause England in all parts after were deprived of pious men which were silenced imprisoned and put out of their Lectures and livings so that want of teaching caused profaneness to get the preheminence The Parliament of duodecimo Iacobi was onely for undertakers to raise money for king Iames some Bishops were questioned as Bilson and others but the Parliament dissolved without doing any thing Then was the Parliament of 18 Iacobi where Heath was for the Commons Sir Thomas Wentworth and Christopher Wansford and others were for the kings side where also Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Giles Mumpesson and Sir Iohn Mitchel were condemned and the Parliament so dissolved in which Parliament Serjeant Grimston called me out of the house to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Westmorland and Sir Francis Vane dead to the little Room in the Lobby where they offered me ten thousand pound or 500. a yeer which I would choose not to oppose the bill of the Fens in the house I answered no money nor estate would make me betray the country This Parliament was made voide and 32 patents called in by king Iames and so he pleased the people with a toy Many and divers were convented by the Councel-table to pay certain sums or to be imprisoned whereof I was one being brought before the Councel when Sir Albert Morton waited Then came the Parliament of 21 Iacobi a little afore king Iames his end where were some good Laws enacted the Lord Keeper Bacon and the Earl of Middlesex condemned for bribery A little afore this I being Custos Rotulorum of the County of Cambridge by Buckingham was put out and Sir Iohn Cuts put in when I had that Office under the broad seal which could not legally be taken away from me unless I had committed some fault thereby to have forfeited the same Now there remaineth no more for the Parliament to do but faithfully to keep what they have justly gotten by Gods Divine providence and his will in a valourous Conquest to the end that when they have setled the building of the State upon a right and firme Basis they may further inlarge the kingdome of the Lord Jesus by their indeavours through Europe which I am fully assured God hath appointed and will certainly bring to pass that all the world may see Gods determination in every climate of this part of the world After this new State is put into the cradle of ease and tranquillity to make it have a full gtowth there will be nothing to hinder the establishment thereof no titles upon marriage as in Monarchy because the power is in the people and they chuse a Representative that shall govern every two or three yeers making an election of Members of Parliament that every one may Govern by vicissitude and therefore there would